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high 8.1

CVE-2026-27459 json

pyOpenSSL DTLS cookie callback buffer overflow

published 2026-03-16 7 mo ago modified 2026-09-11 59 d ago also EUVD-2026-12677 , GHSA-5pwr-322w-8jr4 , PYSEC-2026-2269

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 55%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

pyOpenSSL is a Python wrapper around the OpenSSL library. Starting in version 22.0.0 and prior to version 26.0.0, if a user provided callback to `set_cookie_generate_callback` returned a cookie value greater than 256 bytes, pyOpenSSL would overflow an OpenSSL provided buffer. Starting in version 26.0.0, cookie values that are too long are now rejected.

Patch / fix

  • pypi pyopenssl 26.0.0
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 0:26.0.0-1.el8ap
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 0:26.0.0-1.el9ap
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 0:4.7.11-2.el9ap, 0:26.0.0-1.el9ap
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 0:24.1.0-2.el8pc
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9 0:24.1.0-2.el9pc
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 0:25.1.0-0.3.el9pc
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9 0:26.0.0-2.el9pc
  • Red Hat RHUI 4 for RHEL 8 0:24.1.0-2.el8ui
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 1777398315, 1777403872
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 1777296732, 1777299023, 1777387242, 1777390240, 1777390333, 1777391447
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 1787217531, 1787235693
  • Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images 2.20.0-0.8.hum1, 26.0.0-1.1.hum1
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.10 1776736910
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.12 1776752646
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.14 1779689392
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.15 1780891395
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.16 1779204086
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.17 1779922205
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.18 1784987273
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.9 1776782369
  • Red Hat Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.4 1775815407
  • pyopenssl Debian 13 25.0.0-1+deb13u1
  • pyopenssl Debian 14 26.0.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-27459

  • pyopenssl Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 23.2.0-1ubuntu0.1
  • pyopenssl Ubuntu 25.10 25.0.0-1ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-27459

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • jaeger hummingbird 1 2.20.0-0.8.hum1
  • candlepin satellite 6.16 4.4.25-1.el8sat
  • candlepin satellite 6.17, satellite 6.16 4.4.25-1.el9sat
  • python-pillow satellite capsule 6.16, satellite 6.16 12.1.1-1.el8pc
  • python-pillow satellite capsule 6.17, satellite capsule 6.16, satellite 6.17 +1 more 12.1.1-1.el9pc
  • python-markdown satellite capsule 6.16, satellite 6.16 3.8.2-1.el8pc
  • python-markdown satellite capsule 6.17, satellite capsule 6.16, satellite 6.17 +1 more 3.8.2-1.el9pc
  • python-pyOpenSSL satellite capsule 6.16, satellite 6.16 24.1.0-2.el8pc

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:48758RHSA-2026:14874RHSA-2026:14873RHSA-2026:14835RHSA-2026:13508RHSA-2026:13512

  • grafana Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-15 12.4.10-150002.4.27.1
  • mgr-push Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-15 5.2.5-150002.3.12.1
  • spacecmd Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-15 5.2.10-150002.3.15.1
  • uyuni-tools Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-Micro-5, Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-15 5.2.17-150002.3.20.1
  • venv-salt-minion Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-Micro-5, Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-15 3006.0-150002.5.22.1
  • spacewalk-client-tools Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-15 5.2.7-150002.3.12.1
  • golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-15 3.13.2-150002.3.19.1
  • mgr-push Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-12 5.2.5-120002.3.12.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:4585-1SUSE-SU-2026:4584-1SUSE-SU-2026:4583-1SUSE-SU-2026:4582-1SUSE-SU-2026:4581-1SUSE-SU-2026:4580-1

  • python-pyOpenSSL openSUSE Leap 16.0 25.0.0-160000.3.1
  • python-pyOpenSSL openSUSE Tumbleweed 26.0.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20419-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10392-1

  • py3-openssl Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23 26.1.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-27459

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • pyOpenSSL Azure Linux 3.0 24.2.1-2

azure linux advisories AZL-80034

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-27459 updated cvss 8.1

pyOpenSSL: DTLS cookie callback buffer overflow

  • Red Hat Exploit Intelligence exploit-intelligence-tech-preview/vulnerability-analysis-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.”
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 ansible-automation-platform-24/hub-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-27/hub-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-24/controller-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-24/lightspeed-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-26/ee-minimal-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available, no fix planned “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.”
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Core 2 ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-tech-preview/ee-minimal-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-tech-preview/ee-minimal-rhel9 Red Hat Ceph Storage 7 rhceph/rhceph-7-rhel9 Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 rhceph/rhceph-8-rhel9 Red Hat Ceph Storage 9 rhceph/rhceph-9-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-feature-server-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.”
  • Red Hat Update Infrastructure 4 for Cloud Providers python-redis, python-urllib3
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.”
  • Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5 rhui5/cds-rhel9, rhui5/rhua-rhel9, rhui5/cds-kubernetes-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.”
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 ansible-automation-platform-25 1777398315, ansible-automation-platform-25 1777403872
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:13553
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 python3.12-pyOpenSSL 26.0.0-1.el8ap Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 python3.12-pyOpenSSL 26.0.0-1.el9ap
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:13512
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 ansible-automation-platform-26 1777296732, ansible-automation-platform-26 1777299023, ansible-automation-platform-26 1777387242, ansible-automation-platform-26 1777390240, ansible-automation-platform-26 1777390333, ansible-automation-platform-26/ee-supported-rhel9 1791974220
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:13545
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  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 python3.12-pyOpenSSL 26.0.0-1.el9ap, automation-controller 4.7.11-2.el9ap, automation-controller-ui 4.7.11-2.el9ap, automation-controller-cli 4.7.11-2.el9ap, automation-controller-server 4.7.11-2.el9ap, automation-controller-venv-tower 4.7.11-2.el9ap
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:13508
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 ansible-automation-platform-27/lightspeed-rhel9 1787217531, ansible-automation-platform-27/ee-supported-rhel9 1792396518
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:87124
  • Red Hat Hardened Images jaeger 2.20.0-0.8.hum1, pyOpenSSL 26.0.0-1.1.hum1, python3-pyOpenSSL 26.0.0-1.1.hum1
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:48758
  • Red Hat Quay 3.9 quay 1776782369
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:11996
  • Red Hat Quay 3.10 quay 1776736910
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:11916
  • Red Hat Quay 3.12 quay 1776752646
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:11856
  • Red Hat Quay 3.14 quay/quay-rhel8 1779689392
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:21017
  • Red Hat Quay 3.15 quay/quay-rhel8 1780891395
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:24853
  • Red Hat Quay 3.16 quay 1779204086
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:19375
  • Red Hat Quay 3.17 quay/quay-rhel9 1779922205
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:22465
  • Red Hat Quay 3.18 quay/quay-rhel9 1784987273
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:48085
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 python-pyOpenSSL 24.1.0-2.el8pc, python3.11-pyOpenSSL 24.1.0-2.el8pc Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9 python-pyOpenSSL 24.1.0-2.el9pc, python3.11-pyOpenSSL 24.1.0-2.el9pc
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:14874
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 python-pyOpenSSL 25.1.0-0.3.el9pc, python3.11-pyOpenSSL 25.1.0-0.3.el9pc
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:14873
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9 python3.12-pyOpenSSL 26.0.0-2.el9pc
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:14835
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.19 satellite/iop-vmaas-rhel9 1789611998
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:68780
  • Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.4 rhtas 1775815407
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:8437
  • Red Hat RHUI 4 for RHEL 8 python-pyOpenSSL 24.1.0-2.el8ui, python3.11-pyOpenSSL 24.1.0-2.el8ui
    fixed: vendor fix “To mitigate this flaw, ensure the callback provided to the set_cookie_generate_callback function strictly limits the returned cookie string or byte sequence to under 256 bytes.” RHSA-2026:10754
  • Red Hat Confidential Compute Attestation openshift-sandboxed-containers/osc-podvm-builder-rhel9 Red Hat Lightspeed Core lightspeed-core/rag-tool-cpu-rhel9, lightspeed-core/lightspeed-stack-rhel9, lightspeed-core/rag-tool-cuda-12.9-rhel9 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 python-pyOpenSSL, python3x-pyOpenSSL, python3.11-pyOpenSSL, ansible-automation-platform-25/hub-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-minimal-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-minimal-rhel9, +12 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 ansible-automation-platform 1777407814, ansible-automation-platform 1777407821, ansible-automation-platform-25 1777191649, ansible-automation-platform-25 1777191659, ansible-automation-platform-25 1777191672, ansible-automation-platform-25 1777191685, +19 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 receptor 1.6.4-2.el8ap, yamllint 1.38.0-1.el8ap, receptorctl 1.6.4-2.el8ap, ansible-lint 26.1.1-1.el8ap, ansible-core 2.16.18-1.el8ap, ansible-test 2.16.18-1.el8ap, +43 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 receptor 1.6.4-2.el9ap, yamllint 1.38.0-1.el9ap, receptorctl 1.6.4-2.el9ap, ansible-lint 26.1.1-1.el9ap, ansible-core 2.16.18-1.el9ap, ansible-test 2.16.18-1.el9ap, +43 more
    +3 more products
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 ansible-automation-platform 1777410604, ansible-automation-platform 1777410621, ansible-automation-platform-26 1777163004, ansible-automation-platform-26 1777163348, ansible-automation-platform-26 1777163557, ansible-automation-platform-26 1777163594, +49 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 receptor 1.6.4-2.el9ap, yamllint 1.38.0-1.el9ap, receptorctl 1.6.4-2.el9ap, ansible-lint 26.1.1-1.el9ap, ansible-core 2.16.18-1.el9ap, ansible-test 2.16.18-1.el9ap, +41 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 10 receptor 1.6.4-3.el10ap, yamllint 1.38.0-2.el10ap, receptorctl 1.6.4-3.el10ap, ansible-lint 26.1.1-2.el10ap, python-black 26.3.1-2.el10ap, ansible-core 2.16.18-2.el10ap, +7 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

23 more not affected in the full advisory

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
7 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 7.2 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
CISA ADP 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 4.0 7.2 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
OSV 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi pyopenssl
>=22.0.0, <26.0.0
26.0.0

Affected products

  • pyca pyopenssl
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat RHUI 4 for RHEL 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7
  • Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.10
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.12
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.14
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.15
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.16
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.17
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.18
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.4
  • Red Hat Confidential Compute Attestation
  • Red Hat Exploit Intelligence
  • Red Hat Lightspeed Core
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Core 2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 7
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Red Hat Red Hat Update Infrastructure 4 for Cloud Providers
  • Red Hat Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

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